Archive for February 2014
Press on Governor’s budget and health
Press accounts hold more information on the Governor’s budget including what’s not there – relief for hospital cuts in previous years. Health and Human Services, A Mixed Bag, CT News Junkie Home care, Medicaid pay, inmate health care in Malloy proposal, CT Mirror
Read MoreGovernor’s budget update proposal
The Governor’s midterm budget adjustment proposals include maintaining the increase in primary care provider rates that began last year costing the state $15 million in FY 2015 and $36 million in future years. The Affordable Care Act provided full federal funding to cover the cost of those rate increases for 2013 and 2014 only. Those…
Read MoreCT’s Medicaid success: Access and quality are up, costs are down
Since 2012, when CT’s Medicaid program shifted from a capitated payment model to a self-insured model based on care coordination, the program has enjoyed significant improvements in quality, access and cost control, as predicted. A new analysis finds that the number of providers participating the in the program is up 32%, person-centered medical homes are up…
Read MoreExchange enrollment growing, but how many were uninsured?
A CT Mirror report looking underneath AccessHealthCT’s enrollment numbers finds that we don’t know how many of the 94,000 people enrollees were previously uninsured. A national study finds that only 11% of exchange enrollees were uninsured; our exchange estimates that rate between 25% and 50%. Even the most generous estimate makes clear that we are…
Read MoreCT Health reform dashboard – progress up to 28.7%
As the ACA’s individual mandate, exchange coverage and dozens of other provisions became effective last month, CT has only achieved 28.7% of necessary benchmarks for effective health care reform, according to this month’s CT Health Reform Dashboard. This is up slightly from 28.3% for the last two months. Uncertainty and a lack of protections in…
Read MoreFebruary CT Health Policy Webquiz – enrollment in CT’s health insurance exchange
Test your knowledge of enrollment in CT’s health insurance exchange. Take the February CT Health Policy Webquiz.
Read MorePRI report: Recommendations to lower Medicaid ED use
Friday, the legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee released results of their study on Medicaid ED usefinding that while per capita Medicaid members’ use of the ED fell slightly between 2010 and 2012, Medicaid still makes up the largest source of ED users in CT at 36%. Despite the per capita decrease, Medicaid members are…
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